Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-20
TEE REUNION.
The La: Day CT the Gathering Of &
Corfedate Veterans They Break
Camp and Silently Depart,
Gen. II. +. Mccullough, Co. Benton.
DR.. 8. &. C!9plon and Rev. 7. &.
Mitchell, Speakers Of the Day.
y 6 sneral Invitation 10 Attend the & = Il.
EucamPuIsnt 81 1T. Louis-TO Meet
at san Antonio SsSt Year


II CAMP Al DALLAS.
Special to She Gazette.
DALLAS, Ten, Aug. Ia-T1e third dsv
Of the reunion opened fair sad beautiful,
with good crowd in attendance. Rev.
D. A. s. Hayden opened with PRAYER.
The Chairman then introduced General
H. +. Mccullough, President Of the CON
federate Soldiers Home at Austin, who
made brief talk concerning the .nstitu-
ton and solicited aid Tor its support.
Colonel Benton OF Missouri was intro
duced and spoke in behalf OF the General
Sterling Price monument to De erected
beside the +. z. Blgir monument in St
Louis. Twenty thousand dollars hiss
already been raised for this purpose an6
$4,000 more is needed. Tne speaker
said that Missourians did not. feel com
PEELED TO ask aid, but they presumed that
every eXCOnfedera.e would be proud of
the privilege of contributing TO so worthy
an object in COmmemOrsttOn OF so Grand
man
The chairman next introduced Dr.. a.
@. CIOotOn Of JEFF rsOn, who said. 1t is
my intention, fellow comrades. to depart
more or less from the usual line of re
union addresses. The regulations Of Lee
and Grant may DE trusted TO history. As
= member of Uood's brigade, nothing
would give me more pleasure than 10 pay
tribute TO their memory. But l am will
ing TO res. it 70 history. The theme that
propose to discuss TO day msy rot be
appreciated by some, Dus it Will represent
my conscientious belief. Again [ iOin
with you IN the bloody conflict. Again J
see you il the hottest of the fgbt-eyer
ready to do battle, even 10 the death, in
| the cause which you had espOused. But
when l note 20 many absent from the
roll call to-day my heart Is over
Whelmed with sadness. Some fell
in the conflict. Others fell by tie way
side. But enough of this We come not
to indulge in self-iaudatiOn and mourn
for cur glorious dead, but To discuss the
everything present. When we suTren-
dered cur flag to the enemy, we did so in
good faith and well understood the CON
dItions imposed. How well We nave
kept the faith the good order Of our
| southern country will testify.
TIE VICTORIES OF PEACE
will live when the victories OF war are
forgotten. 1t is well that the war was
fought when it WAS, and it IS well that it
ended as 1t did. 1t is my proud boast
|
speech in the state Of Texas after
LinC0ln's election. But to-day
this is my country, this nv
flag The questions which shall
discuss pertain to political economy, but
not to party policy. Two great dangers
have always threatened republics-cen
tralizstion and disintegrstiOn. our
fathers realizing these difficulties sought
to introduce new principle by inserting
into the organic law the doctrine Of
STATE SOVEREIGNTY
to prevent Capitalization. Massachusetts
exercised that reserved and sovereign
right, and the south did the same: and
in doing so she exercised q constitutional
reservation. But we now realize that the
principle for which we fought was a
political heresy and is totally impractical
Bile. PeaCeable secession might have
| been practicable in the early
| history of the country, but not in its
| progressive age. Had the COnfederacy
been successful and organized on the
| principle Of secession it would not have
stood the test of nationality for quarter
! of century. Was it not well then that
the war ended when il did? If it had
been postponed until now the success Of
the Union armies would have resulted in
CESAR AND A CROWN.
| The fact that the south is not dependent
province, but an integral part of this
great country, is due to the conservative
| spirit Of tie north. The speaker then
revived the history OF Rome
{ to show that battles in the
name Ct liberty sre often fought for
! personal sggrandizement; and that war
| msy bring historic renOwn for chivalry
and poWress, but is always st the cost of
| liberty. For ia interneclne strife men
| forget their popular liberties. Contnu-
| ing, the speaker said To-day we stand
in the same attitude IN regard TO the
! federal government as the north does
| that and nothing more. The war wss g
war between sovereign powers. l take
the position that every act of the federal
government after our surrender, no mat
! ter however unjust it seemed, was in their
LEGITIMATE DOMAIN.
| They were compelled to follow the logic
of events. But her whole / gislation tes-
weged civil war. And as
the conquerirg nation it was
! their right 10 confscate our
property. And herein lies our yindica-
ton in the war we maintained. Before
| the war the slave holder was himself g
slave. 1t was necessary to keep our
slaves in ignorance, that we might keep
them in subsection. But the institution
of slavery was necessary, and having
served its purpose it had to go. Slavery
| was not the issue of the war. There
| were few fanatics, such IS John Brown
and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who thought
so, but the strong men Of the north did
not fight for the negro. When Mr.. Grady
stated before the New England club that
this is new south with new principles,
he made mistake. This is
THE SADIE OLD SOUTH,
with the same old principles revised into
harmony with the progress OF the
age. In referring to the industrial
development of the south, the speaker
declared that electricity is to become the
chief motor of machinery, and that in this
| force the south is richer than the north.
In fertility of soil and salubrIous climate